The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) is collecting “tissues from fetuses” ranging from 4 to 23 weeks from women “undergoing pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego,” the California Globe reports, citing a “heavily redacted” UCSD Human Research Protections Program approved in early 2018.

The UCSD program has been exposed by David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), who notes that “the majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.” The clinical data for each subject was to include “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure,” and the program “sought to harvest fetuses from up to 2,500 patients.”
The revelation is not Daleiden’s first encounter with Planned Parenthood. For example, in 2015, the CMP secretly recorded Planned Parenthood Executive Mary Gatter discussing the sale of organs and other body parts. “Let me just figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ballpark, then it’s fine, if it’s still low, then we can bump it up,” Gatter said. “I want a Lamborghini.”
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told reporters that “the allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true,” but apologized “for the staff member’s tone and statements.” In another video, Dr. Deb Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, said she would use a “less crunchy” method to extract tissue, to “see if I can get it all intact.”
California’s then-Attorney General Kamala Harris did not investigate the possible sale of body parts, a violation of medical ethics and state law. At the time, Harris was seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, and posted on her campaign website a petition asking voters to “take a stand and join Kamala in defending Planned Parenthood.” In effect, Harris was their pro-bono attorney, but there was more to it.
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